{"product_id":"configuring-contagion-ethnographies-of-biosocial-epidemics-9781800733046","title":"Configuring Contagion: Ethnographies of Biosocial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tExpanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Together they explore how inseparable social and biological processes configure co-existing influences, which create epidemics, and in doing so stress the role of social inequality in these processes. The authors compellingly show that epidemics do not spread evenly in populations or through simple coincidental biological contagion: they are biosocially structured and selective, and happen under specific economic, political and environmental conditions. This volume illustrates that an understanding of biosocial factors is vital for ensuring effective strategies for the containment of epidemics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The book will be useful to medical anthropologists, public health workers, and other health care providers…\u003c\/em\u003eRecommended\u003cem\u003e.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Challenging the notion that some diseases are non-communicable, [this book] offers an original and coherent argument for rethinking the relations between the biological and the social, but also for thinking through the communicability of conditions through the social, using concepts such as contagion and contamination, configuration and conflagration.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Ruth Jane Prince\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Oslo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Whyte and Henry Oboke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTed Lowe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney Parks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLone Grøn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Williams and Lotte Meinert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. Belko\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden Contagion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDoug Hollan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLynn M. Morgan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama Mohapatra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e Epidemics and Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eByron Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042743484759,"sku":"9781800733046","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800733046.jpg?v=1750955429","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/configuring-contagion-ethnographies-of-biosocial-epidemics-9781800733046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}